I’m evaluating a collaboration/project management web application called Project Pier. So far I like it, but I got a weird upload error when I was testing file uploads. The error read:

1Failed to create folder: /var/…xxxx.xxx/httpdocs/uploads/

I migrated a Menalto Gallery 2 website, and I also got this error right away.

Error (ERROR_STORAGE_FAILURE)

I migrated a Menalto Gallery 2 site, and I got this error right away.

Error (ERROR_PLATFORM_FAILURE)

It’s a permissions issue.

The fix:

steve$ chmod -R 777 g2data

Give your g2data folder (could be another name; this is the folder that holds your gallery 2 data) write permissions, and the error should disappear.

When posting to my blog via TextMate’s blogging bundle, I’m getting a strange error. The post is successful via xml-rpc, but the error is a bit annoying, if not just a little worrisome.

It didn’t always do this. I’ve noticed it just in the last few days, but it could have been going on for a [...]

So I launched a site. It was using nice clean rewrites on my dev server (partly local, partly fedora 8). After launching to a godaddy server, i was getting the error: No input file specified.. I knew my redirects/rewrites should have been working.

So, I did some searching, and after (yes, a gruelling 8 minutes), I [...]

So, I’ve been using this sweet mouse for a few months, the Logitech MX Revolution. And I’ve been using TextMate for at least a year or two. Well, today, I was in my terminal window, and I wanted to open a few files in TextMate. So I typed my usual command:

Often times during development, a PHP page will suddenly display a blank white page. For those of you who don’t know this, it can be very helpful to toggle error display to allow you to view why PHP is showing nothing.